{"id":5990,"date":"2024-02-09T17:13:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T22:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=5990"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:19:53","slug":"karim-al-zand-music-you-letter-pleased-me-greatly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=5990","title":{"rendered":"Karim Al-Zand: Music: Your Letter Pleased Me Greatly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Your Letter Pleased Me Greatly<\/h2>\n

variations for soprano & piano<\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/br>Y<\/span>our Letter Pleased Me Greatly is based on text by Desiderius Erasmus (1466\u20131536), from the Dutch theologian\u2019s book on rhetoric, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style (1512)<\/i>. In a virtuosic demonstration of prose embellishment, he famously provides 195 variations of the simple sentence \u201cTuae litterae me magnopere delectarunt\u201d<\/i> [Your letter pleased me greatly]\u2014each variation bringing a very different sense and sentiment to the same basic point. \"\"<\/a>Twenty variants are used in this piece for soprano and piano, and the work\u2019s approach reflects the same conceit: each short \u201cvariation\u201d uses similar musical material, but projected with a succession of different moods, characters, and forms.<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

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purchase score & parts<\/span><\/h4> <\/span>Learn More<\/span><\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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DATE
\n2023<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

DURATION
\n7 minutes<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

INSTRUMENTATION
\nsoprano (B3\u2013B5), piano<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

PREMI\u00c8RE
\nCaitlin Aloia, soprano; James Palmer, piano<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

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SCORE
\nPDF<\/a><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

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AUDIO<\/p>\n

Caitlin Aloia, soprano | James Palmer, piano<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Your Letter Pleased Me Greatly variations for soprano & piano Your Letter Pleased Me Greatly is based on text by Desiderius Erasmus (1466\u20131536), from the Dutch theologian\u2019s book on rhetoric, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style (1512). In a virtuosic demonstration of prose embellishment, he famously provides 195 variations of the simple sentence \u201cTuae litterae […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5990","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7125,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5990\/revisions\/7125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}